The invention discloses a recycling method of a waste
nickel cobalt manganese lithium ternary battery positive
electrode material. The method comprises the following steps that: 1) acid leaching is performed, specifically, a
powder material containing a ternary positive
electrode material, negative
electrode powder,
copper-aluminum
powder, iron and other elements is added into
dilute acid, and a
reducing agent is also added into the
dilute acid, and agitation leaching is performed, so that a
leachate containing
nickel,
cobalt,
manganese, aluminum,
lithium,
copper and iron can be obtained; 2)
copper removal is performed, specifically,
iron powder is added into the
leachate, the
iron powder reacts with the
leachate at a certain temperature, and filtering is performed, so that a copper-removed liquid is obtained; 3) iron and aluminum removal is performed, specifically, a
phosphoric acid compound is added into the copper-removed liquid, dilute alkali is added into the copper-removed liquidat the same time, so that the pH value of the liquid can be adjusted to 2.5-3.5, and iron and
aluminum can be removed; 4) P204 extraction and
impurity removal is performed; 5) a
nickel-
cobalt-
manganese ternary precursor is prepared; and 6) a
lithium-containing liquid is added to a saturated
sodium carbonate solution, so that
evaporation and concentration are performed, so that
lithium carbonate powder can be obtained. The
recovery rate of nickel, cobalt, manganese and lithium is higher than 95%; the purity of the obtained nickel, cobalt, manganese ternary precursor and the
lithium carbonate is high; and the nickel, cobalt, manganese ternary precursor and
lithium carbonate can be directly used for preparing ternary battery materials, and resource recycling is truly achieved.